Category: Culture

Kent gave birth and inspiration to many prominent people. For instance, the religious role of Canterbury was the source of inspiration for poet Jeffrey Chaucer when he wrote his “Canterbury Tales”. The father of Charles Dickens worked in Chatham docks – Dickens’s books are full of descriptions of Chatham and Rochester landscapes. Landscape painter William Turner spent a lot of time in one of the towns in this county – several of his works denote picturesque banks of eastern Kent.

Nobel Prize winner William Golding used to work as a teacher in the Maidstone high school. Mick Jagger from the legendary “Rolling Stones” created the group in Bradford city. The successful studio “Xenomania” (the one that wrote music for Girls Aloud (rumoured to have been Kent escorts) project started its work here).

The only professional soccer club of Kent is Gillingham F.C. Cricket is very popular in this county since it was first played here.